Customised GCSE Gizmo Revision Guide

Vocabulary and subject-topic flashcards covering confirmed texts, themes, methods, contexts, and secondary subject summaries from the Customised GCSE Gizmo Revision Guide.

Macbeth: Key Turning Points

The witches' prophecies, Macbeth's ambition, Duncan's murder, Banquo's ghost, apparitions, tyranny, Birnam Wood, and Macbeth's death.

Macbeth: Themes

Ambition, kingship, fate/free will, supernatural, guilt, masculinity, violence, appearance versus reality, and order/disorder.

Macbeth: Writer's Methods

Soliloquy, imagery, symbolism, dramatic irony, foreshadowing, imperatives, and shifts in verse/prose.

Macbeth: Context

Jacobean kingship, Divine Right of Kings, witchcraft, and gender expectations.

A Christmas Carol: Structure

Composed of five staves detailing Scrooge's transformation, the visits of Marley and the three Spirits, and the movement from isolation to social responsibility.

A Christmas Carol: Themes

Poverty, wealth and greed, social responsibility, redemption, family, memory, time, isolation, and Christmas spirit.

A Christmas Carol: Methods

Allegory, symbolism, contrast, supernatural elements, narrative voice, descriptive imagery, pathetic fallacy, and characterisation.

A Christmas Carol: Context

Victorian poverty, class divisions, attitudes to the poor, industrialisation, and contemporary debates about social responsibility.

An Inspector Calls: Structure

The Inspector's arrival, the interrogation sequence, the family's changing reactions, and the final telephone call.

Eva Smith / Daisy Renton

The central absent character in J. B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls.

An Inspector Calls: Themes

Responsibility, class, gender, age/generation, capitalism versus socialism, power, reputation, and collective responsibility.

An Inspector Calls: Methods

Dramatic irony, stage directions, entrances/exits, lighting, sound, props, pauses, contrast, and the Inspector's control of the stage.

An Inspector Calls: Context

Set in 1912 but written and first performed in 1945; reflects class inequality, women's position, social responsibility, and post-war audiences.

Eduqas Anthology: Listed Poems

Remains, Drummer Hodge, Cousin Kate, Origin Story, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The School Boy, Catrin, and Dusting the Phone.

Poetry Comparison Process

Identify a shared theme, analyse evidence and methods in each poem, and explain a meaningful similarity or difference.

Unseen Poetry Analysis Focus

Establishing literal meaning, speaker, imagery, tone, structure, and any shifts in viewpoint.

Eduqas English Language: Core Skills

Retrieval, inference, language/structure analysis, comparison, transactional and creative writing, and SPaG.

The IT (AQA Drama Note)

A text needing confirmation as either a practical or course text, as it is not on the current AQA written set-play list.

AQA Geography 8035: Topics

Natural hazards, living world, UK landscapes, urban issues, changing economic world, resource management, fieldwork, and issue evaluation.

Edexcel Maths Higher: Subject Areas

Number, algebra, ratio/proportion, geometry/measures, statistics, probability, and Higher multi-step problems.

OCR PE: Core Components

Anatomy/physiology, physical training, sport psychology, socio-cultural influences, health/fitness, and assessed practical sports.

AQA Combined Science Trilogy 8464

Curriculum covering Biology, Chemistry, Physics, required practicals, equations, calculations, and practical/data analysis.

Business Studies: Provisional Core Topics

Business activity, marketing, people, operations, finance, and external influences.